1. Lack of time. Politicians suffer, like everyone else, from lack of time. Time, a scarce and expensive commodity. A politician’s agenda is very broad, tedious and unavoidable: cabinet meetings, hundreds of ceremonial events, party meetings, press conferences, hearings. Anyway. The politician lives trapped all the time, in the time of others.
2. The harassment of social networks. Today’s politician is a slave to social networks. They impose the agenda. They contradict and irritate him. They distract him and make him banal. Frivolous. The networks reduce the action of the politician to the photo. The photo is the government of self-contemplation. The politician believes that complying with the network is complying with the people.
3. The disappointment of politics. Politics is a mirror of the people. It is its consequence, although the people do not like it. Politics does not have a good reputation, because it strips the society that we are. People are disappointed in politics, because they see themselves in it. It is the reflection of our contradictions and hardships. Our failures and excuses. The politician emerges from society and comes to power through it or in spite of it. The politician embodies much of what we are inside. That is why politics has never had a good reputation. And today, less.
4. The speed of events. We live a rushed life and politics is a reflection of it. There is no time for the considered decision of the politician. A minute can be an eternity. People are in a hurry to know. And the politician must decide fundamental questions in hours or minutes. Decisions become hasty acts. And clumsy.
5. Information overload. The politician does not know who to believe. There are thousands of daily news. Many network advisors, who tell you what to do and what not to do. The politician has many interpretations of the same event. Thousands of voices whispering in your ear. Overinformation, that evil of our time, also hinders politics.
6. The multiplication of oppositions. The partisan oppositions are not the only ones nor the most influential. The politician has to deal with economic groups, social movements and with invisible powers such as the markets. Also, with a new generation of opinion leaders called influencers. How many oppositions does a politician have to face today?
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7. His illnesses. The exercise of politics always puts health to the test. The politician is a being in permanent tension. In permanent fear. Tension and fear that the arrogance of power does not always know how to hide. Power has costs: among them, illness of the body and emotion. That silent road to madness.
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